Elizabeth Strout
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Both sides.
I think so.
I really do think so because, you know, we used to have...
There just were places in the community where people would gather.
In Maine, there would be bean hole suppers, they called them.
What's that?
A bean hole supper is where you bake beans in the ground.
Not obviously straight in the ground, but in a big can.
You have all these different kinds of beans.
You go and you have the different beans and you talk to people.
It's not like a cocktail party, actually.
It's very lovely.
Anyway, it's just one example of...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kids would be running around and, you know, old people would be there.
Precisely.
Right.
And I do think that that has been eroding steadily.
I don't know, again, because of the social media, because of the pandemic, because of the political situation, you know, I don't know.
But there's just a sense of people not particularly coming together publicly the way we used to.